West Brom will continue talking to Demba Ba over the weekend as they seek to finalise a £10 million transfer.

Tony Pulis knows that the 30-year-old could earn significantly more money in China due to their 35% tax rate as opposed to England’s 45%.

Shanghai Shenhua have lodged a £10 million bid and are offering a salary comparable to Albion’s which would be in the region of £60,000 - £70,000 a week.

The sum would dwarf the amount paid to Darren Fletcher, Joleon Lescott and Ben Foster the current high earners.

West Brom's Darren Fletcher in action with Arsenal's Jack Wilshere and Mesut Ozil

Albion have played a patient game with Ba whom they had courted long before news broke of their intrest in free-agent Andre Pierre Gignac who has since moved to Tigres.

Albion are back at training on Monday and have so far unveiled only James McClean despite Pulis talking publicly towards the end of the season of their hopes to get much of their re-building work done early.

Clearly there is a hope of getting a positive answer from Ba early next week, or they will have to move to other striking targets.